#2447 BLOC First D: "Caps lock" in activities. (was: "Caps lock" in write activity.)

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#2447: "Caps lock" in activities.
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  Reporter:  jg                        |       Owner:  uwog                  
      Type:  enhancement               |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  blocker                   |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  write-activity (abiword)  |     Version:                        
Resolution:                            |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0                         |  
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Changes (by jg):

  * milestone:  Trial-3 => First Deployment, V1.0


Comment:

 Some further discussion with Walter....
 Some applications won't make sense to do this caps stuff, and can break
 them pretty badly if input is forced to caps.

 Here's what we worked out.  Have a system wide flag which says if we want
 caps lock on; but in fact, all input would remain in the case typed, and
 only *some* applications would listen to the flag, and *output* any lower
 case as upper case.  This helps kids learning to read, who don't know
 their lower case, while still making it possible to deal with applications
 that have to have lower or mixed case input (e.g. typing a web browser
 URL).

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